The Democrats’ coming winter of discontent

Twelve of the best novels about journalism

Books

…that aren’t Scoop

John Sturgis

They’re struggling to preserve their culture after generations of hedonism and nihilism

Casey Chalk

Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas reviewed

Declan Ryan

E.E. Cummings dedicated his collection of poetry No Thanks to all the publishers who turned it down

Alice Dunn

Art

The magazine has spent 10,000 issues identifying the dominant cultural phenomena of the day and being difficult about them

Richard Bratby

Art
April 24, 2020
How Graham Greene earned The Spectator a place in cinematic history
The 400 film reviews he wrote for the magazine are full of sparkling observation
John R. MacArthur
Art
January 29, 2020
J’accuse…!
The banning of Roman Polanski’s film about the Dreyfus affair is history repeating itself
John R. MacArthur
Media
January 3, 2019
Booze, cigarettes and Auberon Waugh: Remembering The Spectator’s 1970s revival
‘The revival of this magazine was wonderful — and it was the time of my life’
Geoffrey Wheatcroft